Russia's Vladimir Putin tackles Mafia and West's agression

[Sherlock Holmes]

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[Sherlock Holmes]

Totally agreed, Putin is a trained KGB assassin who can take out a whole town with one hand tied behind his back after kicking 10 bails out of bogus Yankee action heroes like Arnie and Sly.

He was involved in those false flag attacks in Moscow; he's part of the KGB/FSB that's in charge of Russia alongside other hawks such as Ivanov.

However if Putin says something about 9/11 for example, how far will any reaction from the controlled Western media about his involvement in the Terrorism in Russia that you mention go?

I would have thought anyone in Russia that starts to question his or the KGB's involvement will be going all the way to your nearest Gulag. He's popular in Russia, and most Russians aren't as stupid as most Americans and Brits sadly are, so I would assume that they know of the clandestine nature of their President. Most Ruskies for example know that Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale and Winston Churchill for example weren't fictional characters. I read somewhere recently that 1 in 3 Brits actually do, pop quiz but very telling.

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[Sherlock Holmes]

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[karlos]

I dont know why people are critical of Putin.
He has after all rebuilt his country which was virtually destroyed by Yeltsin.
Ofcourse Russia needs to re arm after all the USA is placing advanced weapons on Russia's borders. For Russia to respond they should place weapons in Cuba like they did in the 1960's

Putin has not invaded any countries unlike Britain and America.
He has shown himself to be a free market guru and has turned Russia from a basket case into a tiger economy attracting massive inward investments. Putin is the one who has brought peace to the republics and has clamped down on fraud and corruption.

The reason why the BBC and the media constantly spin against Putin is because the only losers from Putin have been the so called Oligarchs like Boris Berezovsky. Most of the oligarchs have fled justice and have moved to either Israel or the UK and the British/Zionist media have closed ranks around them.
These people should be extradited back to Russia to stand trial.
Maybe Russia should hire some bounty hunters!

[ian neal]

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[ian neal]

A creation of Mr Icke I believe

http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/01/opposames.html

[TonyGosling]

Putin’s wittiness charms Western journalists
15.02.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru

British newspapers traditionally approach President Putin, his statements and actions, with a certain amount of criticism. However, they preferred to change their attitude for the better after Putin’s news conference which he held in the Kremlin for Russian and foreign journalists on February 14. British journalists, who attended the conference, did not conceal their exalted impressions of the event.

Practically all newspapers issued today paid attention to Putin’s witty remarks. Some of them wrote that Russia’s president did not have many rivals in the world of big politics who could compete with him in wittiness and the ability to find precise answers immediately.

Britain’s The Times and its Moscow-based observer, Tony Halpin, who is known for his harsh criticism of Putin’s course, were fascinated with Russian president’s wittiness. The journalist devoted almost his entire article to Putin’s jokes during yesterday’s news conference.

The article titled “The last show for President Vladimir Putin: a heart, a joke and a rattling saber” pays reader’s attention to Putin’s quotes. The author preferred not to emphasize some of Putin’s harsh statements regarding Russia’s foreign policies.

Tony Halpin wrote that the “show” in the Kremlin was abundant with colorful language and jokes, which Putin used exactly where they needed to be used and where he wanted the audience to applaud him.

Putin said during the conference that he had worked his two presidential terms “like a galley slave.” “ Heads of state have no right to drool for any reason. If they are going to slobber and smear snot around and say things are bad, bad, then that's how it will be,” he said.

Attacking Western observers for their attempts to teach Russia democracy, Putin said: “Fine, let them teach their wives to make cabbage soup.”

When a young female journalist asked Putin about demographic problems in Russia and mentioned that she was an expecting mother, the president interrupted the woman saying: “This is wonderful. But what does it have to do with me?” The audience roared with laughter.

Putin pointed out Dmitry Medvedev’s personal charm and said that the latter did not need him [Putin] as a babysitter. The president also said that he did not see the need to hang Medvedev’s portraits in his new office.

Answering a question about the rumored ruble devaluation, Putin resolutely responded that those rumors were untrue. When the reporter asked the president to give more guarantees for that, Putin said: “Do you want me to eat soil from a flowerpot? Make an oath in blood?”

When Putin was asked to comment Hillary Clinton’s statement who said that a former KGB officer could not have a soul, Putin replied: “A state official should at least have brains.”

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/15-02-2008/104070-putin_journa lists-0

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Putin threatens to aim nukes at Ukraine

http://www.ukrainianjournal.com/index.php?w=article&id=6022

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday threatened to target
Ukraine with nuclear missiles should Kiev allow NATO bases on its
soil following its planned accession to the alliance.

The warning comes two days after Putin's three-hour one-on-one
meeting with President Viktor Yushchenko in the Kremlin, which
averted an earlier-threatened Russian natural gas supply cutoff on
Tuesday.

"We will be forced to re-target our missiles at objects that we
believe may threaten our security," Putin said at a press conference
in Moscow. "I have to say about that today directly and honestly to
prevent speculation in the future."

Russia's threat to aim the missiles at Ukraine, the country that even
Putin has previously described as "the brotherly nation," underscores
the aggressive rhetoric and growing militancy in the Kremlin.

Russia last year promised to target its missies at Poland and the
Czech Republic if the two countries allow construction of a U.S. anti-
missile complex, which is to include high-precision radar and 10
interceptor missiles.

Washington said the complex is aimed at countering the threat of
possible Iranian missile attack and would not be able to overcome
thousands of Russian ballistic missiles.

Putin's latest remarks did not surprise Ukraine, a sign that the
issue had been already raised and discussed at the Yushchenko-Putin
meeting in Moscow on Tuesday.

"This is the right of the Russian Federation to state its position,"
Oleksandr Chaliy, Yushchenko's chief foreign policy aide, said at a
press conference on Thursday.

"The very fact that the Russian president clearly articulates his
position shows that we have been talking openly, honestly," Chaliy
said. "Each party understands the steps the other party would
undertake if any actions are taken."

Putin's remark is apparently aimed at discouraging Ukraine from
joining NATO. It comes a month after Kiev has officially requested
Brussels a permission to join the Membership Action Plan, a program
precedes the accession to the alliance, in April.

Putin argued the request comes in contrast with position of the
majority of Ukrainians.

"According to information that I have, the majority of Ukrainians are
against joining NATO, but the Ukrainian leadership has taken course
and has signed the paper to start the accession," Putin said. "Is
this a democracy? Who asked the people of that country whether they
want it?"

Yushchenko said the accession to NATO would come only after the move
is approved by the people at a referendum.

"There is no threat to Russia from the territory of Ukraine," Foreign
Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko said Thursday adding that Ukraine has
voluntarily gotten rid of the world's third biggest nuclear arsenal
following the break-up of the former Soviet Union.

Martin Wolf, a political commentator for the Financial Times,
said: "The political divergence between Ukraine, increasingly free,
and Russia, increasingly despotic, is as clear as it is disturbing."

"The KGB-state is unable to understand that fear and respect are
antitheses, not synonyms," Wolf said in remarks posted on his blog at
FT.com. "Mr Putin has made no secret of his regrets about the
collapse of the Soviet empire and his resentment at the subsequent
expansion of the European Union and, even more, of NATO."

"What seems absent from his discourse is why these countries, so
familiar with beneficent Russian rule, should have handed over their
futures to bodies whose central powers are Germany and the US,
respectively," Wolf said.

"Let us rid ourselves of illusions. This is no new cold war, but it
is a cold peace. That is a tragedy. It is also a reality. It is one
the West must live with, probably for a long time to come."

[PaulStott]

I think Putin has every right to be pissed off about several things, but in particular NATO's march East - sticking NATO big guns in Poland and Czech Republic is about as provocative as the Yanks could be.

Oh - and we should hand him Berezovsky back as well.

[Disco_Destroyer]

via Myspace Bulletin

Australia’s Massive Military Buildup and Evolving Common “Defense” Arrangements
May 7th, 2009

Here’s a lengthy analysis of Australia’s recently announced plan to massively increase military spending.

Via: Global Research:

On March 2, 2009 the Australian Department of Defence released a 140-page white paper called Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific century: force 2030 (1), which announced $72 billion in new military spending for an island nation of barely 20 million inhabitants with no adversaries except those it chooses to make for itself.

The document details the Australian government’s plans to acquire and expand a full spectrum - air, sea and land - arsenal of advanced weaponry in the nation’s largest arms buildup since World War II.

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The mainstays for the evolving Asian NATO…are Australia and Japan with India eyed as the third leg of the stool.

Australia and Japan both have, in addition to hosting US military bases and deploying forces for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, entered on yet more dangerous ground by joining the American worldwide interceptor missile system.

http://cryptogon.com/?p=8451

[TonyGosling]

New Russian agency to replace FSB & SKP

Russia gets new powerful investigative agency
Published 27 September, 2010, 13:39

President Medvedev has signed a decree on establishing Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and submitted a draft law on the new crime-fighting body to the State Duma, the parliament’s lower house.

The new law enforcement agency will become the legal successor of the existing Investigative Committee of Prosecutor General’s Office (SKP). The new body will be independent from the Prosecutor’s Office and is expected to answer directly to the president.

According to the decree published by the Kremlin press service, the main point of the move is “to make work of preliminary investigative bodies more efficient and to strengthen the prosecutor’s control over the observation of the law by those bodies.” The decree comes into force as of the date of its signing.

The new committee will be headed by a chairman who will have 13 deputies, including one first deputy. The staff of the committee’s head office and its territorial branches will account for 21,156 people. The personnel of the military investigative bodies will include 2034 people, the decree states.

The previous committee – SKP – was created in 2007 to investigate serious criminal offences. But, as practice has shown, a clearer differentiation between functions of prosecutor’s control and preliminary investigation is necessary, the Kremlin said.

The draft law that has already been submitted to the parliament for approval will set the tasks, goals and principles of work of the Investigative Committee as well as define its legal status, organization and material support.

President Medvedev, who chaired a council on Russia’s law enforcement system on Thursday, said other executive agencies authorized to conduct investigations will not be affected by the change immediately, but that situation may later be reviewed.

“It’s important not to ruin the existing balance,” Medvedev said.

Up until now, four federal bodies have had the power to prosecute. Those are the Investigative Committee of the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Interior Ministry, which handles misdemeanors, the Federal Service for Control of Drug Circulation, and the Federal Security Service (FSB), which is involved in fighting terrorism and counter-intelligence operations.

Earlier, the chair of the Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, said unification of the bodies would improve crime-fighting efficiency in Russia.

The SKP personnel includes more than 16,500 civilians and 2,000 military. Over the three years since its creation, it has investigated about 600,000 criminal cases, and more than half of these have been referred to courts.

http://rt.com/Politics/2010-09-27/new-crime-fighting-body.html

[TonyGosling]

Mafia and West tackle Russia's Vladimir Putin?

Moscow surrounded: Holding hands ‘for fair elections’ (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Published: 26 February, 2012, 11:55
http://rt.com/news/protest-moscow-motor-rally-691/

The Big White Ring flash mob has finished in Moscow, where thousands of people managed to surround the capital’s old center, linking their hands. A circular human chain of fair-election supporters unfolded along the capital’s Garden Ring road.

The number of the opposition activists reached up to 11,000 people, according to police. Earlier, flash mob organizers insisted that 34,000 people would be required for the ring to be completed.

The people, many of whom were wearing protest white ribbons, were standing all along the Garden Ring. Some were waving white scarves and holding white umbrellas. A police helicopter was hovering above the scene. No one was arrested during the flash mob, nor were any incidents of blocking the traffic observed.

The protesters have taken to the streets to support fair, honest and transparent elections in Russia in anticipation of the presidential poll due on March 4.

Thousands of drivers also supported those gathered for the flash mob with a spontaneous auto race along the Garden Ring. Some cars were decorated with white ribbons, and the passengers were waving flags and balloons.

RIA Novosti / Maria Vashuk

“We have been on Bolotnaya [Square rally] and Sakharova [Boulevard rally],” says the Facebook page for the event. “Our demands have yet to be met. That is why we will come again.”

At some spots, pro-Putin’s youths were trying to join the line, holding cardboard red hearts saying “Putin loves everybody”. Some of them stood separately, forming parallel lines, distributing cardboard hearts and ribbons in Russian flag colours.

The flash mob started at 2 pm Moscow time (10:00 GMT). The action was not coordinated by any particular group and came from within the community, said Sergey Parkhomenko, who organized recent protests for fair elections in Moscow.

“People are the main initiators, as much as it was with the event White Ring,” he said. “Such events are good because they have neither beginning nor ending, neither head or tail, neither organizers nor sponsors. They depend on people who decide to gather.”

The Moscow mayor’s office said that the flash mob did not need to be coordinated with the city authorities. However, the participants were warned not to disrupt city traffic.

The flash mob was supposed to continue for an hour, from 2 to 3pm local time, braving the subzero temperatures and snow. After the hands of the first and the last person linked, completing the ring, people, as witnesses reported, stood for another 20 minutes before they started to disperse.

After the ring closed up some estimated 200 people of opposed activists went to join another event in central Moscow, at Revolution Square, where they tried to hold unsanctioned rally, dubbed “Seeing off political winter”. They were chanting slogans and dancing in a ring. According to the police some of the activists tried to initiate a brawl with other activists from different parties. About 10 people were arrested as police officers took preventative measures.

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The TRUTH about RUSSIA the Elite doesn't want you to know
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-31/truth-about-russia-elite-does nt-want-you-know

Jul 31, 2016 12:39 PM
Just like the good ol' days, Russia is now a useful 'enemy' being used to justify whatever needed from Washington, whether it be more money for NATO expansion, more spying powers on the domestic population, or more reason to justify the USA's generally jingoistic, xenophobic attitude about foreign policy. As we explain in Splitting Pennies - Understanding Forex - the USA has created a wall of stupidity surrounding the USA via sophistocated propoganda techniques developed over a period of 60 years utilizing advanced technology, combined with bio-chemical layer through aerosol sprays, chemicals in the food, and nervous system manipulation through 1/2 Hz coming from your Television (See US Patent 6506148 here).

The event that changed the global power structure was World War 2. History, whether business, technical, political, or social - should be looked at through 3 prisms; before, during, and after the war. Before & during the war, Washington had a clear agenda - engage the US population & American business in the new hot industry: war. Hitler provided them with an easy villian and a brand; Nazi. It was the Evil Empire, something out of a b-novel. It gave America an easy way to paint the world in a black and white brush for the domestic US population that wasn't aware of how the world really works (pratically speaking, Europeans need to be more clued in and speak 2 or 3 languages due to Europe's density and wide diversity of cultures).

Here's a list of FACTS that the Elite doesn't want you to know. Everything you know about Russia - is wrong.


Russia is 25 years old.
Russia, and the Soviet Union, are 2 completely different countries. They are like comparing the British colonies and the United States of America. It's a different system, different rules, different territory, different everything.
The United States developed a long term strategy to destroy the Soviet Union - in order to create Russia today (an open, market based economy). In other words, Russia today is what Washington had planned for during a 40-50 year period after World War 2, spent billions of dollars, built countless missile silos and other hardware.
Russia has one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world See here
Russia is currently the #3 country ranked in terms of total immigrants in the world, closely behind Germany and the United States. See here
Unlike most of European powers, Russia was not a very ambitious or successful colonial power. The extent of Russia's colonialism was Alaska, but this was really just the business idea of some fur-trappers; it wasn't supported by Moscow very much. With a few rare exeptions, Russia never 'invaded' another country. Mostly Russia has defended itself from invaders, at least historically speaking. Even today, Russia's foreign policy surrounds a 'defense' doctrine, not an 'invasion' doctrine. Being attacked nearly every 20 or 30 years throughout history, the Kremlin has reason for such a policy. Why did every Empire throughout history want to invade Russia? Because of the nice weather? No, because of the vast untapped resources. For a more academic answer, checkout Brzezinski's "Grand Chess Board" - certainly Sun Tzu would agree, controlling Russia and North America is necessary for real global domination, for a number of geostrategic, logistic, and economic reasons.
Russia is an Emerging Market (EM) - Why is it emerging? Because it's just starting to build economic systems. In Russia there's no class action litigation industry. There's no FTC. There's no bankruptcy rules. But all that's changing. Change takes time - it will likely be a generation or several generations.
The Forex software that runs the algorithmic Forex world, Meta Trader, is from Russia. Although primarily used outside of Russia, it's built native in Russian language, from Khazan (although headquartered in Cyprus).
Russia has massive untapped resources unlike any other country in the world, most notably but not only oil. Russia includes 11 time zones and is one of Planet Earth's most rich and undeveloped land masses, which includes mountains, forests, deserts, tundra, and ice oceans.
No one is starving in Russia. In fact, due to the trade war between Russia, the EU, and the United States, they're even burning and destroying food if it is found to come from blocked countries.
The list can go on and on. Do your own research - unplug your TV and see what the world looks like

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[TonyGosling]

Russia's economy minister arrested for allegedly taking $2m bribe to approve government oil takeover
Allies suggest politician may have been framed by enemies jostling for power

Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Tuesday 15 November 201615 comments
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-economy-minister -alexei-ulyukayev-arrested-detained-bribe-2-million-rosneft-bashneft-p utin-a7418856.html

Russia’s economy minister has been charged with extorting a $2m (£1.6m) bribe to approve a state oil takeover, making him the highest-ranking official to face prosecution since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Alexei Ulyukayev’s arrest has been championed by pro-Kremlin politicians and state television as a victory in the fight against corruption, but the case threatens to expose vulnerabilities in Vladimir Putin's inner circle.

Mr Ulyukayev's ministry had been overseeing a sale of state assets when investigators said he took a bribe on 14 November for approving a $5bn (£4bn) bid by Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil company, to purchase a majority stake in oil producer Bashneft.

Russia’s Investigative Committee said it had charged Mr Ulyukayev with “receiving bribes” after he “illegally demanded” that a Rosneft representative pay him to endorse the acquisition.

Investigators accused the politician of “threatening, using his ministerial powers, to create obstacles to the company's activities in the future”.

"Thanks to a timely report of the minister's illegal activities by representatives of Rosneft to law enforcement, Alexei Ulyukayev was caught red-handed as he received a $2m bribe," a statement said.

The minister’s arrest was announced in the early hours of Tuesday morning, coming after months of electronic surveillance and phone tapping, reportedly led by the FSB security service, culminating in a sting operation recording the alleged bribe being taken on Monday.

The 60-year-old technocrat faces up to 15 years in jail if found guilty of the crime.

Mr Ulyukayev's lawyer, lawyer Timofei Gridnev, told Reuters the politician was detained at Rosneft's office, although the circumstances remained unclear.

The economy ministry described the arrest as "strange and surprising", with sources telling the Novaya Gazeta newspaper Mr Ulyukayev had not taken any money himself. No footage or photographs were released of his arrest.

The sale of the 50.07 per cent stake in Bashneft, Russia's sixth largest oil producer, came after months of wrangling that saw government-owned Rosneft face down opposition from some in the government.

Mr Ulyukayev originally opposed the sale but later endorsed it after Mr Putin said it could help fill state coffers as Russia struggles to plug budget holes left by low oil prices and Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict.

Rosneft is led by Igor Sechin, a powerful ally of the Russian President, and investigators said they were not challenging the legality of the company’s purchase.

Mr Sechin lobbied hard to buy Bashneft, but the deal was fiercely opposed by economic liberals in the government, some with ties to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who believed Bashneft should go to private investors.


Mr Putin was informed about the case when the investigation was first launched, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "These are serious allegations," he said. "Only a court can deliver a verdict."

Critics have accused officials of using previous high-profile prosecutions as cover for settling commercial or political scores, a charge denied by the Kremlin and law enforcement agencies deny that.

Alexander Shokhin, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and briefly economy minister himself in the 1990s, said he was sceptical about the accusations against Mr Ulyukayev.

"It's hard to tell who's actually gaining from all this, apart from the SK [Investigative Committee], which is diverting attention away from their generals who are being investigated," he told a Russian radio station, according to a translation by the BBC.

Others highlighted Mr Ulyukayev's high-profile opposition to increasing government presence in the Russian economy, originally saying it was wrong for a state-owned company to take part in a privatisation drive.

Mr Putin himself had defended the deal, saying that because Rosneft has minority foreign investors, the sale wasn't simply a transfer of assets from one part of the state to another.

Vladimir Milov, a former deputy energy minister turned opposition activist, claimed Rosneft could be behind the Ulyukayev case in an opinion piece on the RBC News website.

"I have little doubt that the middle-of-the-night detention of economic minister Alexei Ulyukayev is an act of revenge for hampering Rosneft's participation in the privatisation of Bashneft," he said.

There had been a widespread consensus that the Bashneft stake was sold to Rosneft for a market price, meaning it was "insane" to extort a bribe from one of the most powerful men in Russia when everyone agreed on the valuation, he added.

Mr Ulyukayev has been in his post since 2013 and is close to Andrei Kostin, the influential head of Russia's second-biggest lender, state-owned VTB, and chairs the firm’s supervisory board.